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    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    I never took the job with Mitsubishi during that 2020 hand off, but I do remember their main focus only being on servicing the...
  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    Rubber debris not cleaned off can cause pitting and errosion to the structure and fasteners as well, especially with salt in use. Poor...
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    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    It appears there have been service bulletins from 2015, 2016, and 2018 on /700/900/1000's to inspect the main landing gear. "There have...
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    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    Nose gear appears to have not collapsed.
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    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    Only perhaps if more of the wing hit say a snow bank after landing off center, but I doubt thats the case as well.
  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    If the wing tip hit hard enough to cause the wing to break off, I'm sure we'd be seeing more damage to the wing tip. It looks fairly...
  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    I believe you'e correct in your representation.
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    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    Question for the pilots here. Please correct me if I am wrong. At the time of their rapid rate of descent, their ground speed via ADS-B...
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  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    Here's another image of the detached wing and gear showing the gear most likely is in the retracted position. At first I thought it...
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  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    It may have swung up
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  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    Even from this angle you can see the gear hitting hard before the wing ever touches. I wonder if they arrived in a stall.
  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    Passengers of the plane have been reporting multiple events of bumps and drops from possibly wind as they were coming in just before...
  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    Low level windshear from weather and tall buildings and down you go. If reports are correct on the pilots, one is a sim instructor using...
  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe replied to the thread Toronto place crash.
    One frame later you can see fuel coming out of the wing as the gear was pushed through a tank before the wing hits.
  • DirteJoe
    DirteJoe reacted to Alistair_Heaton's post in the thread Toronto place crash with Like Like.
    I only know the last one because the pilot did well. The first three are murdering pilots. They don't deserve to be known.

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